Chris
LOTRO – In Dunland, working through my first quest hub. Crafting as much as I can without going back to older zones.
Guild Wars – BOOM goes the elementalist
TOR – Smuggler 19, Jedi Knight 35 (still). Focusing on space combat with my smuggler.

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I just wanted to take some time to write a fan letter to Harry. As an Eve player with 7 accounts, I really love listening to your perspective on MMOs each week. I also love to hear what your doing in Eve.

I especially related to your comments about TOR being so linear. It really depressed me at how linear it was. But the more I play it, the more I can overlook its faults and just enjoy it for what it is.

To me TOR is a casual game, similar to Peggle or Bejeweled on my phone. I can get on it for 10 minutes and actually do something. Games like Eve there is very little you can do that I consider fun in under an hour (PI, market orders ?). I tend to have the most fun with Eve when I can dedicate time to it, which gets harder and harder with real life obligations.

So don’t discount TOR, it’s the perfect dum dum MMO to be subscribed to when you really don’t want to think about anything too deep. Its like going to a blockbuster movie, easily forgotten, but a heck of a lot of fun while watching.

The last few minutes were beyond epic. Never laughed so hard listening to the podcast before! ;)

Jay

Harry!!
I just wanted to let you know in case you didn’t see it. In EQ2 you have the option to change the character models! The current models you are using now are called Soga models. The company decided that people would like these toons better than the original ones that were put in the game. I myself do not like looking like an Anime movie… To change your character models go under your settings options; there is a list of all the Races with a check-box to switch each of them. This way you can look at each model and choose the one that best works for you!
I am glad you are liking EQ2 as I have played this game for many years; it is always nice to hear someone else talk about the game I have played for so many years!
have fun!

Harry

I will look into that character model option! But I must say it does not deter me from enjoying the game. In this case, gameplay is really outweighing graphics. I also notice the game gets prettier the more I see of it, so it’s not even a point anymore.

I’ll dive into the expansion with the Dungeon Maker soon(tm) as that is a very intriguing idea. Will keep the EQ2 flame burning!